Fri. 7/8/16 9:20am
Stanley:
Ha! That first track should have been "We Will Always Suck Up to the Central Committee of the Party"
Hello Meghan and all.

Fri. 7/8/16 9:22am
Meghan:
hahaha.... I was so excited when I came across a song from North Korea, and then heard it and thought- Yup, exactly what one would expect from North Korea. That and Laibach....

Fri. 7/8/16 9:51am
doctorjazz:
Hi, great sounds so far
Have to mention what sounds like a great jazz show tonight in NYC with an international cast (hope I can get to it)... The Anat Fort Trio with guest Gianluigi Trovesi, at the Rubin Museum NYC. I've seen Fort, she's great, have always wanted to catch Trovesi, maybe the rest of my life will permit...

Fri. 7/8/16 10:41am
doctorjazz:
Guitar is such a cool instruments, so many different ways it can sound. Slide guitar here, I presume.

Fri. 7/8/16 10:44am
Mike East:
I thought it sound more like a pedal or lap steel doctorjazz - though I won't contest the statement that guitar is a cool instrument that can sound many different ways...also I could be wrong and maybe it was slide guitar.

Fri. 7/8/16 10:45am
doctorjazz:
As could I...it did have the sound of a bar sliding on the strings, whichever it was.

Fri. 7/8/16 11:11am
coelacanth:
maybe i am the fool here, but a pedal steel guitar is usually played with a "slide"; and slide guitar is not an instrument but a style of playing. this would make a pedal steel git a form of slide git...making both of you correct! (if it's a pedal steel.)

Fri. 7/8/16 11:13am
chromaphone:
yes, lap steel guitars are basically guitars played horizontally but a pedal steel... now that's a different beast. I didn't know which track you are talking about but it was probably lap steel. It is called pedal steel "guitar" though!

Fri. 7/8/16 11:16am
coelacanth:
chroma - both are played with a slide though, typically, right?

Fri. 7/8/16 11:19am
chromaphone:
@coel - yup, always. "slide guitar" is a vague term but usually means a regular guitar played with a slide.

Fri. 7/8/16 11:23am
coelacanth:
aha. so my statement above is only correct on a technicality!...and from the viewpoint of diplomacy maybe!
(and, i wasn't listening that closely to the track so i have no opinion as to what it actually is! ...i was cooking, across the room.)
Thanks.

Fri. 7/8/16 11:33am
Alf from Upstate:
Who did those two previous African tracks?! I gotta know!

Fri. 7/8/16 11:34am
Meghan:
There is a glitch in the page for some reason.... Hoping it comes back!!

Fri. 7/8/16 11:45am
Doug Schulkind:
There appears to have been a problem with the FMU website or at least the playlist system. This playlist (and Marty McSorley's over on the Mothership) stopped accepting new song info and comments at 11:19.

Fri. 7/8/16 11:51am
coelacanth:
so, as you can see them - maybe you would delete the redundant ones so they don't appear on the archive?!

Fri. 7/8/16 11:52am
doctorjazz:
to get a bit more technical, you can play any steel string guitar on you lap and have a "lap steel" if you play it with a slide. There is, however, a guitar built as a "lap steel", which has the strings much farther from the fretboard, and is thus very hard to finger and play without a slide. And, a pedal steel, of course, is only played with a slide.
Great show, thanks Meghan, lots of fun (good company on my dog walk as well as home).

Fri. 7/8/16 11:55am
doctorjazz:
To get a bit more technical, you can play any steel string guitar horizontal on the lap with a slide and have a "lap steel", but there is a purpose built lap steel guitar with strings much further from the fretboard, which is only played with a slide, to far to finger chords and noted. A Pedal steel is a bit different, and only played with a slide.
Been a great, fun show, listened at home and just came back from dog walk, good company there as well. Thanks.